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Academic integrity and the problem of plagiarism
The University of Memphis Code of Student Conduct - Academic Dishonesty defines academic misconduct as
“all acts of cheating, plagiarism, forgery and falsification.” It continues about plagiarism:
“The term ’plagiarism’ includes, but is not limited to, the use, by paraphrase or
direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without
full or clear acknowledgment. It also includes the unacknowledged use of
materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in the selling of term
papers or other academic materials.”
The policy of The University of Memphis on plagiarism is contained in the
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Code of Student Rights
and Responsibilities (Student Handbook) and is summarized in
Code of Student Conduct — Academic Dishonesty.
The specific policy of the Department of History is contained in its document
Policy about academic misconduct.
The University of Memphis has secured a site license for faculty to use TurnItIn to maintain a high
level of academic integrity in written work by students. Faculty members who wish to use the
program must request access from the
Advanced Learning Center.
(See also our page about TurnItIn.)
If you are a student, you need to know how to avoid plagiarism; if you are a faculty member,
you need to know how to prevent it and how to detect it when it occurs. The following documents
should be helpful.
- Advice about plagiarism and using sources [Department of History,
The University of Memphis]
- Plagiarism [University Libraries,
The University of Memphis]
- How to Avoid Plagiarism
[Undergraduate Academic Conduct Committee, Northwestern University]
- Avoiding Plagiarism
[Purdue Online Writing Lab]
- Indiana University-Bloomington has three useful resources:
- Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism [Duke University Libraries]
- Plagiarism.org: The Learning Center [TurnItIn.com]
- Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices [Council of Writing Program Administrators]
- Plagiarism Tutorial
[University Libraries, University of Southern Mississippi]
- Avoiding Plagiarism
[University Writing Center, George Mason University[
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Plagiarism & Academic Integrity at Rutgers University [Rutgers University Libraries]
- Sources and Citations at Dartmouth College
- Plagiarism [Washington
State University Libraries]
- Plagiarism — and How to Avoid It!
[Drew University]
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Plagiarism: Curricular Materials for History Instructors [American
Historical Association]
- How to Detect and Demonstrate Plagiarism
[American Historical Association]
- Plagiarism-by-Paraphrase
Risk Quiz [Arnold Sanders and Susan Garrett Weiss]
- What is Plagiarism? [History News Network]
- Center for Academic Integrity
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Plagiarism and the Web [Bruce H. Leland]
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Plagiarism in Colleges in USA
[Ronald B. Standler]
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Student Plagiarism in an Online World [Julie J.C.H. Ryan]
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The Plagiarism Resource Site at The University of Virginia
[Lou Bloomfield]
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Guide to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism [University of Alberta Libraries]
- Electronic Plagiarism Seminar [Noreen Reale Falcone Library,
Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY]
- Virtual Salt: Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
[Robert Harris]
- Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism:
Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism [Lisa Hinchliffe]
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Cyberplagiarism: Detection and Prevention [Penn State University]
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Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You [Kimbel Library, Coastal Carolina University]
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Thinking and Talking About Plagiarism [Nick Carbone]
- Plagiarism [Sharon Stoerger]
- Plagiarism [Wikipedia]
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